poetry

• peckham rye lane


  each person is a sturdy hairbrush bristle - personification
• peckham rye lane


  damp and cramped as a coconut shell - simile
• peckham rye lane 


  first person - speaker can express thoughts & feelings
• peckham rye lane context

  showcases multicultural & diverse society in london, lives there (person experience)
• captain cook


  leaving childhood, life's fairyland behind - metaphor
• captain cook


  now we talk no more - shift in tone, cycle of life
• captain cook


  repetition of collective pronoun 'we'
• captain cook context


  fell out with brother after he spread rumours in regard to poets marrige
• island man


  the sound of blue surf - sibilance, colour imagrey
• island man


  stream of consciousness - unhampered by filter
• island man


  form - free verse
• island man context


  poets experience moving to uk from the caribbean during windrush
• mild mist upon the hill context

  bronte - romanticist & wrote about happiness of childhood due to her siblings dying at a young age
• mild mist upon the hill


  im gone back to the days of youth - metaphor
• mild mist upon the hill


  shift from past to present - correlation between life experience & affiliation with hill, time is a vehicle (hill will always be there)
• mild mist upon the hill


  form - lyrical ballard, like a song
• sunday dip context


  wrote about simplicity of rural life, nature, family, social injustice, romantic poet
• sunday dip


  laugh to hear the thunder in their ears - metaphor
• sunday dip


  repetition of 'and'
• sunday dip


  form - 14 lines & stanzas of equal stanza length, simplicity to form
• to my sistercontext


  romantic poet, close relationship with sister, emotional connection to family and nature
• to my sister


  there is a blessing in the air - religious lexis & metaphor
• to my sister


  from earth to man, from man to earth - repetition
• to my sister


  form - ab rhyme scheme, control
• to my sister


  bare trees and mountains bare - repetition
• clear and gentle stream context

  wrote and translated hymns in career, influenced by spirituality
• clear and gentle stream

  in the same selfsame strain - sibilance
• clear and gentle steam 


  cyclinical structure - always goes back
• clear and gentle stream 


  repetition of clear and gentle stream
• i remember i remember context

  romanticism, poet experienced poor health so wrote about a more content time
• i remember i remember

  my spirit flew in feathers then - religious imagery
• i remember i remember

  i remember i remember repetition
• the emigree context


  poem references immigration, poet focus' on themes of persecution, love, personal stories, displacement
• the emigree


  repetition of 'sunlight'
• the emigree


  my city hides behind me - personification
• the emigree


  structured - reinforce acceptance with identity
• jamaican british context


  poet addresses racial stereotypes and reflects personal experience of duel heritage
• jamaican british


  when knowing how to war is jamaican british - metaphor
• jamaican british

  repetition of 'jamaican british'
• jamican british


  form - 2 lines (duel heritage)